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My wife is a casual gamer with NO interest in WWII or any sort of wargame, so I didn't think she would even try Memoir 44. I told her the game was only a light wargame with simple rules, and to my surprise she agreed to "try" it.

While waiting for our box to come in the mail I showed her the Days of Wonder promotional video, hoping to inspire her more, but it had the opposite effect. She said it looked "boring".

Long story short(er) our game arrived from Amazon and we played it a couple of times. She said she didn't mind it!

Next, we played a couple of games of M44 Online and wonder of wonders she not only "doesn't mind it" she LOVES the computer version! Every night for the past week she has said, "So... do you want to play that game?" Naturally, I reply, "YES PLEASE!" (I think it helps that the game runs on our laptops, so we can play while sitting on the couch together.)

Is this unusual? Any other guys out there with wives/girlfriends who like the game?

I'm starting to regret my wife's interest in this game. We played both sides of two scenarios yesterday and she beat me all four times!

The first game was pretty epic. Playing as the Axis forces I pretty much dominated the early going. After about 15 minutes I had 4 of the 5 required victory medals and she had but one. A few turns later she took out one of my tank units, making the score 4 to 2.

I advanced on a couple of her wounded units, victory pretty much assured, but on her next turn she rolled 2 dice and got a tank and a grenade, taking out one of my armor units. Then she moved a lone tank 3 hexes into my territory, adjacent to a single soldier that I was "hiding". I remember thinking, "She still doesn't understand this game. She should leave her armor at range because she gets the same number of di--"

She rolled an infantry, took out my unit, and used armor overrun to move into the city the soldier was hiding in. The city with the final victory medal.